Judges: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost to the public purse was of (a) the salaries, (b) expenses and (c) any other costs of the judges in the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First Tier Tribunal in each of the last five years.

The following table shows the cost of (a) judicial salaries and fees, (b) expenses and (c) other judicial costs within each of these three jurisdictions in each of the last five financial years.

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

(a) Judicial Salaries and Fees

Social Security and Child Support

Salaries

9,121

9,264

9,512

9,927

10,776

Fees

15,439

15,576

16,413

22,145

29,091

Total

24,560

24,840

25,925

32,072

39,867

Criminal Injuries

Salaries

21

—

158

36

111

Fees

1,148

1,037

1,149

1,145

1,395

Total

1,169

1,037

1,307

1,181

1,506

Asylum Support

Salaries

—

759

708

728

748

Fees

—

110

123

252

424

Total

—

869

831

980

1,172

Overall total

25,729

26,746

28,063

34,233

42,545

(b) Expenses

Social Security and Child Support

1,482

1,610

1,894

1,906

2,260

Criminal Injuries

210

264

228

251

307

Asylum Support

—

10

13

19

28

Total

1,692

1,884

2,135

2,176

2,595

(c) Other Judicial Costs

Social Security and Child Support

328

371

406

315

441

Criminal Injuries

—

—

—

—

—

Asylum Support

—

—

—

—

—

Notes: 1. All figures are in £000 and are rounded. 2. Figures for Asylum Support for 2006-07 are not available. The Tribunal did not become part of the Tribunals Service until 2007-08. 3. 'Other Judicial Costs' is the expenditure on Judicial Publications (such as copies of legislation) in SSCS. These costs are not available for the individual smaller tribunal jurisdictions. Criminal Injuries, and Asylum Support, as they are collated together across a range of jurisdictions and cannot be easily disaggregated.